The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice

Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice by esseph on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:30AM (#46528401)

Amazon does a lot these days, are you talking about their ground satellite terminal service? Grocery Service? What about Online Pharmacy? Do you need to buy a car? Would you like some satellite internet? Do you need a k8s cluster, they'll even handle lifecycle management for you. They also seem well on their way toward seriously hurting the USPS, FedEx, and UPS, and will be outpacing the entire US Postal Service in total volume as of 2028. Would you like to watch a movie or buy an album? Health insurance?

I'm of course talking about maybe 1/50th of the services they offer these days, it is extensive.

"competing"

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Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice by lossolo on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:47PM (#46534973)

I'm not aware of any country besides the US in which Amazon dominates in anything.

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Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice by esseph on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:20PM (#46536353)

Amazon has over 50% of the German e-commerce market, is also #1 in Italy and Spain.

Japan and India have also been getting investments, now that they've established a presence in such a massive scope of industries in the largest economy in the world.

Next year (2027) or maybe 2028 should see them have as a global internet provider ala StarLink.

In the UK, Germany, and Australia, Amazon has around 70% of the audiobook market.

Amazon.com is the world's largest global bookstore.

Twitch controls 70% of the game streaming market except for China.

Give it ~4 years and Amazon will be dominating UK and India delivery and private delivery services.

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Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice by sjw987 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:31AM (#46541415)

I live in the UK and Amazon essentially dominates online retail here. It's usually the go-to brand name which "killed the high street", by undermining it completely.

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